Youri Tielemans

[enmac]

26 minutes ago, Blarmy said:

Wait - I thought this was the Eddy Merckx thread?

It became both. Only because they were born 30 miles apart and they're both Belgian. 😁

[brucey]

 

 

[Marshall Cockney Fox]

The lad must not leave - ever! If he does, I hold each and everyone of you personally responsible. 

 

There. I've said my piece! 

[ARM1968]

1 hour ago, enmac said:

It became both. Only because they were born 30 miles apart and they're both Belgian. 😁

I like Belgian chocolates. Can we discuss them in here as well, or would that just be going round in cycles?

[An Sionnach]

7 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

I like Belgian chocolates. Can we discuss them in here as well, or would that just be going round in cycles?

Bruge is even nicer than you would think but Brussels is a madhouse. Chimay blue is incredible beer mind you.🙃🙃

[turtmcfly]

https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-top-ten-midfielders-season-kante-fabinho-west-ham

[HighPeakFox]

If we're going full irrelevant here, may I offer this ancient nonsense for your mid-week amusement... 

 

 

[Guest StevieLynex]

8 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

If we're going full irrelevant here, may I offer this ancient nonsense for your mid-week amusement... 

 

 

Mr Bean wasn't around at the same time as Not the Nine O'Clock News

[Greg2607]

1 hour ago, brucey said:

 

 

Thank god for Lee Cleaver!!!!

[fuchsntf]

29 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

I like Belgian chocolates. Can we discuss them in here as well, or would that just be going round in cycles?

I lived, was Left broken hearted, picked up the broken spilinters, got shot at, got held-up, travel-documents with Contract for Work in S.America stolen

spent a night at a Local Station nick ,with door open had No papers,Gendarm-Escort to paid ferry...

Met a German-girl, Who became my wife, the rest as they say is History...& All that  in Belguim...and I still love the Country & people...

 

He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things.’ 

 

A Belgien proverb that could fit...some on this forum....or

 

Or if you think, you are Good at problem solving,  a good & strong decision maker...Then Think again..

‘When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life is deciding which chocolates to pick! 

 

[Blarmy]

2 hours ago, enmac said:

It became both. Only because they were born 30 miles apart and they're both Belgian. 😁

I like meandering threads, and am a bit fascinated by mental cyclists, so no worries 🤣

[gerblod]

16 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

The team is defined by a common identity - you have to be English to play. It's not a team of stars plucked at great expense from around the world - it's a team of players of the same nationality.

I get why some people aren't into it - we've been fed some utter dross over the years. But it's very weird indeed when people go out of their way to boast about the fact that they dislike their own national team and - in some cases - actively support other countries.

And what would you state are the qualifying criteria for being English? Language, genetics, birthplace, parentage...etc.

Who do you cheer for when the Olympics are being staged or when the Commonwealth Games are on.

 

I wouldn't boast about not supporting England, but, where once I would follow every game, the whole England 'thing' now leaves me cold. Perhaps it's because football is the overwhelmingly favourite sport of the 'English' (whoever they are) and yet our teams have gradually become lifeless and mechanical over the time the Premier has become the foremost league in the world. I'm not sure whether there's an inverse correlation in there, but, if I saw Brazil were playing Argentina at the same time as England were playing Spain, I'd probably choose to watch the former. If England were playing Belgium I would watch it to expecting a better performance from Belgium and probably feel more emotionally drawn towards Youri and Timothy than Harry and Chilly - who a lot on here simply cannot abide. How can you root for a team when half of the players incite some kind of negativity from one?

It's a mutable tribalism.

[ClaphamFox]

Just now, gerblod said:

And what would you state are the qualifying criteria for being English? Language, genetics, birthplace, parentage...etc.

Who do you cheer for when the Olympics are being staged or when the Commonwealth Games are on.

 

I wouldn't boast about not supporting England, but, where once I would follow every game, the whole England 'thing' now leaves me cold. Perhaps it's because football is the overwhelmingly favourite sport of the 'English' (whoever they are) and yet our teams have gradually become lifeless and mechanical over the time the Premier has become the foremost league in the world. I'm not sure whether there's an inverse correlation in there, but, if I saw Brazil were playing Argentina at the same time as England were playing Spain, I'd probably choose to watch the former. If England were playing Belgium I would watch it to expecting a better performance from Belgium and probably feel more emotionally drawn towards Youri and Timothy than Harry and Chilly - who a lot on here simply cannot abide. How can you root for a team when half of the players incite some kind of negativity from one?

It's a mutable tribalism.

Good old-fashioned cognitive dissonance. It's easy with practice 

[Guest Bert Fill]

54 minutes ago, Blarmy said:

I like meandering threads, and am a bit fascinated by mental cyclists, so no worries 🤣

Coincidentally, I like mental threads, and am fascinated by meandering cyclists!

[Fox1norfolk]

He will not be leaving, the idea is to strengthen the squad not weaken it

[Hoopla10]

Like it or not Youri's name will be circulated in the tabloid press and on social media through this summer. It will only get worse if he has a blinding Euros with Belgium presumably a favorite to win it. When people ask, what's a "big club", this is how we know we're not one in their eyes. Because for them their first instincts are, little ol' Leicester isn't big enough for such a talent, where can he go that reflects his talent. People who think if we'd made it to the CL next season this would change are in denial. 

 

I can't stand England games. It's the predictability that bores me. We'll play a bunch of small nations in the group stages and do enough to get through. The media will bang on about how good we are, getting that hype train going based on virtually nothing. Rhapsodize about Harry Kane even though most his goals will be pens, then never question him after the group stage even though he's done a vanishing act. Then the first actual half decent team we face we'll lose. Depending on luck that might be the quarters or semis and the pundits will declare it a good result. There's no reason why this team shouldn't win it... if they had a proper manager. 

[lcfc sheff]

If he has a good Euros, he’s not going for anything cheaper than £100m

[enmac]

1 hour ago, Blarmy said:

I like meandering threads, and am a bit fascinated by mental cyclists, so no worries 🤣

More meandering. Eddy could also play football. Would probably made a great box to box midfielder. Could probably have run all day. Also, he would have been highly competitive. Born to win. 

 

https://cartophilic-info-exch.blogspot.com/2019/05/panini-sprint-74-01-eddy-merckx.html

[gerblod]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

Good old-fashioned cognitive dissonance. It's easy with practice 

Teensy-weensy bit of hypocrisy there? I think you've shown your slip a tad. You don't understand how others can feel that way and yet you come up with a glib, yet incisive, explanation for how it works personally (?) for you. Fine, I won't pursue it.

 

[gerblod]

18 minutes ago, enmac said:

More meandering. Eddy could also play football. Would probably made a great box to box midfielder. Could probably have run all day. Also, he would have been highly competitive. Born to win.

I've watched a lot of pro cycling - there's the skinny and the small and the muscular and the tall, but only one I've ever seen resembling Eddy - and that was the 'Tashkent Terror' - Djamolidine Abdoujaparov. But Eddy was taller by three inches. They both looked big around the shoulders - like boxers. I reckon you're right about him making a midfielder (or maybe a proper bully of a striker). Rock hard with incredible stamina.

[ClaphamFox]

11 minutes ago, gerblod said:

Teensy-weensy bit of hypocrisy there? I think you've shown your slip a tad. You don't understand how others can feel that way and yet you come up with a glib, yet incisive, explanation for how it works personally (?) for you. Fine, I won't pursue it.

 

Jesus Christ it was just a joke mate 

[Leicester_Loyal]

6 hours ago, An Sionnach said:

We are going to have to generate an awful lot of money in the next year , to improve contracts and sign new players  and expand the stadium. Personally I have no idea where it will come from.

EL campaign, fans back in the ground, new shirt sponsor, got rid of the deadwood (Fuchs, Morgan, Slimani, Gray, James), sell a couple of players and a youngster (Praet/Hamza/Mendy, Benkovic, Ghezzel, George Hirst, Josh Knight). There's no doubt in my mind we'll sell a big player next summer as well, might end up being Maddison, Cags or Ricardo, depends on their contract situations, we'll get good money for all of them, that in itself could pay for the stadium expansion.

[Chrysalis]

I think he will sign new deal but may go next summer, so enjoy the next season folks.

 

Really hope I am wrong and he stays for much longer.

Edited 26 May 2021 by Chrysalis

[gerblod]

On 26/05/2021 at 17:11, Leicester_Loyal said:

EL campaign, fans back in the ground, new shirt sponsor, got rid of the deadwood (Fuchs, Morgan, Slimani, Gray, James), sell a couple of players and a youngster (Praet/Hamza/Mendy, Benkovic, Ghezzel, George Hirst, Josh Knight). There's no doubt in my mind we'll sell a big player next summer as well, might end up being Maddison, Cags or Ricardo, depends on their contract situations, we'll get good money for all of them, that in itself could pay for the stadium expansion.

I strongly dislike your reference to Fuchs and Morgan as "dead wood". 

Do you need reminding that they were both, until very recently, still capable of functioning as first team players? They are both club legends and, as such, deserve the respect for being so.

Matty James deserves respect too. Had he not been injured so often, his career at Leicester would have been pivotal to our success. Better a footballer than Choudhury and Mendy.

 

As for transferring Maddison, Pereira or Soyuncu - those players are essential to the forthcoming EL campaign. City could possibly get away with selling Ricardo's services, but the same ambition the Club has in creating a better stadium is also found in the desire to create a better team.

 

The expansion of the stadium is an important mid-term project. However the next season has to be one where a better deeper squad is consolidated.

 

 

 

[M0901]

3 hours ago, gerblod said:

I strongly dislike your reference to Fuchs and Morgan as "dead wood". 

Do you need reminding that they were both, until very recently, still capable of functioning as first team players? They are both club legends and, as such, deserve the respect for being so.

Matty James deserves respect too. Had he not been injured so often, his career at Leicester would have been pivotal to our success. Better a footballer than Choudhury and Mendy.

 

As for transferring Maddison, Pereira or Soyuncu - those players are essential to the forthcoming EL campaign. City could possibly get away with selling Ricardo's services, but the same ambition the Club has in creating a better stadium is also found in the desire to create a better team.

 

The expansion of the stadium is an important mid-term project. However the next season has to be one where a better deeper squad is consolidated.

 

 

 

I can’t believe Morgan and Fuchs were referred to as dead wood 😂😂😂😂 christ